Word: christinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT IS THE FUNCTION of memory in ressurrecting the children we once were, the personalities we abandoned long ago? In A Model Childhood, Christina Wolf struggles with this question as she tries, in graceful, stirring prose, to reconstruct her youth in Nazi Germany. Writing after a brief trip back to her native town in 1971, Wolf succeeds in raising distrubing questions about the relationship of the past to the present, but the lofty, stream of consciousness style which so effectively creates the feeling of memory ultimately precludes any real clarity of vision. Although in a work such as this...
...with Actor Richard Burton, and exposes gritty, drug-fueled scenes from her marriage to Actor Christopher Jones. In Haywire, a memoir that has become a TV film, Brooke Hayward (daughter of Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward) immortalizes a family history of divorce, breakdown, suicide. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford depicts her mother, Actress Joan Crawford, as a promiscuous lush given to brutal child abuse. In I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, TV Producer Barbara Gordon publicizes the story of her ad diction to Valium. In Memoir of a Gambler, Play wright Jack Richardson details...
DIVORCED. Christina Onassis, 29, Greek shipping empress; and Sergei Kauzov, 40, her third husband and sometime Soviet her third husband and sometime Soviet shipping functionary; on the grounds of irreconcilable differences; after 21 months of marriage; in Switzerland. "They did not part in anger," one Swiss lawyer reported; a multimillion-dollar settlement reportedly helped soften the blow for Kauzov...
...greatest challenges of her reign, however, came not from the political arena but from troubles within the royal family itself. In the 1950s she nearly caused a constitutional crisis by her involvement with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans, whose help she had sought to cure her semiblind youngest daughter, Maria Christina. Another shock came in 1964; although the House of Orange has been staunchly Protestant for 400 years, Daughter Irene converted to Catholicism in order to marry Carlos Hugo, an exiled Spanish prince. Two years later, Crown Princess Beatrix caused a public outcry by marrying German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg...